I just saw this vodcast (video podcast) of greenpeace on iTunes which mentioned that roughly 10% of surface area in the Arctic pole is being lost every decade to global warming. The news hit headlines on google news and reiterates that if nothing is done to reverse global warming, the polar bears may be extinct within 45 years!

Apparently, this is the first case of a mammalian species facing a potential wipe out due to direct effects of global warming. Already, there is a high incidence of polar bear deaths due to drowning in the arctic regions and ecologist rescue teams are busy trying to find ways to prevent it. The average polar bear could swim upto 15 miles but the ice caps are found to be retreating as far as 200 miles in some regions, thereby endangering the lives of these white-furred creatures that were once also hunted for their expensive fur atleast until a landmark treaty between the five polar bear ‘bearing’ nations prohibited this.

The podcast urges to drive less and spread the word about global warming and I thought it is a just cause that needs more people like you & me donating our voices to it.